Poetic Mourning
Mar 29th, 2012 
The poetic community is mourning a loss today. Distinguished and critically acclaimed poet, feminist, essayist, and woman Adrienne Rich died at 82 in her home in Santa Cruz, California.
As stated in the NYTimes, “Widely read, widely anthologized, widely interviewed and widely taught, Ms. Rich was for decades among the most influential writers of the feminist movement and one of the best-known American public intellectuals. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry and more than a half-dozen of prose; the poetry alone has sold nearly 800,000 copies, according to W. W. Norton & Company, her publisher since the mid-1960s.”
Below is one of her latest poems, “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve”:
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence 2007
